Yesterday we had ANOTHER visitor for World of Work Week!

Mrs Stewart, a very experienced and talented hairdresser came in to tell us about her job and show us some skills.

We all got to try out some hairstyles using different brushes and accessories – we really enjoyed it!

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills!

Primary 6 had another group of visitors today!

Some of the ladies which run the Charity – ‘Befriend a Child’ came in to tell us how they become involved in this area of work and what the Charity supports.

We learned a lot about how we can help when we are older and we even met Cuddles the cheeky Kangaroo!

Thank you so much for visiting our class!

Primary 6 had a Personal Trainer (Dan) come to visit today to tell us all about his career for World of Work week.

We learned about the personal qualities, skills and education which is required to become a Personal Trainer.

Dan then ran a class with us to show us how it is done!

Thank you for visiting and sharing your knowledge and skills.

This week, Primary 6 have participated in ‘Flood Awareness Week’ along with some other classes at Fernielea.  We have completed lots of activities to help us learn more about different types of flooding, which types of flooding we are most at risk from and how to help ourselves and others if an emergency flooding situation occurs.

Here are some pictures to show all our hard work!

On Wednesday 8th March, we had some visitors from Generation Science.  They entertained us with their interactive presentation on renewable and non-renewable energy.  They explained to us how both types of energy works.  It was very inspiring, interesting and made us think about the ways in which we use energy at home.

Yesterday at Fernielea, lots of pupils across the school got involved in World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book characters.

The whole school had a parade to show off their wonderful costumes and discuss which books their characters came from.

Here are some pictures of the Primary 6 characters!

This week, part of the Primary 6 class had a lovely afternoon doing some baking with the residents of Summerhill Home.

We helped the residents decorate the cupcakes they had previously baked.  We had a fantastic time!

Due to the size of our class we could not all go at once, so half of us went this term and the other half will go next term!

This week, some classes at Fernielea School got to use a fantastic resource called Google Expeditions.

Using the Google Expeditions goggles and a smartphone, you can see places around the world that many of us have never seen before, it was fantastic!  We had so many questions, we could have spent all day there learning about what we were seeing through our goggles!

Have a look at this website which will provide even more information and show Google Expeditions in action!

https://www.google.co.uk/edu/expeditions/#about

This week in Science, Primary 6 have been investigating how electricity works.  We have experimented using some design challenges and are now able to discuss which objects will conduct electricity and why.

We will be using this knowledge and skills to draw our own electric circuits using the correct symbols.

Primary 6 have been learning about the Victorians this term.

We have been working with Allan Paterson to learn all about Victorian Aberdeen.  Mr Paterson visited the class to share lots of interesting information about Aberdeen in the Victorian times, then took us on a Victorian trail to see some of the buildings for ourselves!

We finished our trip with a visit to the Maritime Museum.  We got to see examples of Victorian toys and clothing – they were very different from our toys and clothing today!